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This article aims to enhance the understanding of intersectionality by proposing a theoretical framework focused on various levels of analysis.

October 31, 2012

Intersectional what? Social divisions, intersectionality and levels of analysis

Key Points

This article aims to enhance the understanding of intersectionality by proposing a theoretical framework focused on various levels of analysis.
Theoretical framing of intersectionality with attention to social categories and relations.
Discussion of societal arenas and historicity in social relations.
Analytical sensitivity towards power dynamics and social hierarchies in contexts.
Outlines the importance of dialogical nature in social relations.
Highlights how power and hierarchy shape social boundaries.
Identifies the need to situate analyses within spatial and temporal contexts.

Abstract

This article contributes to the growing debate on intersectionality by proposing a theoretical framing which attends to different levels of analysis in terms of what is being referred to (social categories or concrete social relations); societal arenas of investigation; and historicity (processes and outcomes). It discusses questions of social ontology, categories, groupings and more concrete social relations relating to boundaries and hierarchies in social life. The article presents a particular analytical sensitivity which attends to the dialogical nature of social relations, the centrality of power and social hierarchy, and the importance of locating these within spatial and temporal contexts.

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